The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-01-19
INTERESTING PEOPLE.

PROFESSOR DoUEDoRF, the German sculptor,
is making bust of Bismarck.
Nh. HENRY WATTERsoN will presently visit
the national capital for a few weeks.
CAROLINE HALL, daughter of the Boston
architect, John Z. Hall, recently received a
medal at the Academy of Fine Arts, Milan.
Phil d. ARMOUR, the Chicago millionaire,
is said 10 contemplate the removal Of his ex-
tensive business plant from that city to st.
Paul
HAVING already introduced European fash
ions in dress, the Empress of Japan will now
cause European manners and etiquette to
prevail at her court.
IT is said that the papers and MSS. of his
father which Colonel Fred Grant is editing
will make two or three volumes the size of
the Generals Memoirs"
THE famous ophthalmologist, Professor
Friedrich Homer, died recently at Zurich at
the age of fifty five. he was one OF the most
distinguished pupils of Crate.
MAY HUDDLEsToN, Mrs. Cleveland's cousin,
| who is living at the White House, rides
tricycle. after school at home every day. She
shows great skill in the management of the
| machine.
Mss KATE FIELD has one of the last
mementoes of the late Senator Logan-a
note Of regret, deploring his inability to
| attend her lecture before the Grand Army of
| the Republic at Washington.
Hon. GEORGE BANCROFT is remarked to
have been unfortunate in his dinner parties
| at Washington this season. Deaths and sick
| nesses have caused many OF them to be post
| poned or entirely broken up.
SIxTY-THREE Tennessee women called on
Governor Taylor the other day to express
| their conviction that this country would go
! to the boW-WoYs if each one of their number
| wasn't appointed State Librarian.
o SATA SAN, young Japanese lady writer,
| has been taken on the editorial staff OF one
of the best newspapers in Toxic. This is the
| first woman in the kingdom of the Mikado
who has been admitted within the circle of
journalism.
| GENERAL WILLIAM r. Cox who introduced
| the bill providing for the payment of one
years salary to the widow Of the late Moses
| "A. Hopkins, the colored Minister to Liberia,
who died at his post, led the last Confederate
charge at AppOmattOx.
| COLONEL JOHN S. MosBY, the ex Confeder-
| ate guerrilla, is investigating the charge that
| Generals PleasantOn and Robert Ingalls, had
q scheme to bride him in 1868. He would
! like to meet the man who first said he could
be bribed TO betray the Confederscy.
ALEXANDER CRAWFORD, a well-knogn Du.
| luth iron manufacturer, has received notice
| that by the death of a cousin named James
| Thompson, In Australia, g fortune OF over
1
| brothers. Mr.. Crawford has not seen his
cousin in forty years.
| GLADSTONE danced with his housekeeper
| and Mrs. Gladstone with the steward at the
servants ball which they gave at Hawarden
Castle IN honor OF Mrs. GladstOnes seventy
fifth birthday, At least, Il at is what some of
the wicked English newspapers say, but they
do not always tell the truth.
DvoRAK, the composer speaks queer En-
| glish. He is in England now, and the tele-
| gram that preceded him, addressed to the
| Leeds Festival Committee, read like this:
| Cologne. I am coming to-day in Victoria.
| VIII somebody snatch me from the station,
as / might not recognize the Journey
| SINCE going to London a year ago Prince
| Krapotkin has lived in retirement in a mod
| est little house at HarroW-on-the-Hi aud
| has kept strictly aloof from the mad orgies
| of the Anarchists and Social Democrats. He
| spends much time in making literary and
scientific researches at the British Museum.
THE creditors of Princess Ypsilanti, the
| widow of the late Greek ambassador at Paris,
| will receive at best per cent. Of their de-
mands which aggregate more than $4,000
This sum is exclusive of the unpaid notes of
the Prince himself, which represent an enor-
nous amount, but for which his widow is
not responsible.
+. w. GURLEY, of Heudersonville, n. c.,
| has been awarded first prize (S250l by the
| of the war; G. w. Ecob, of Sydney PlsiTs,
| y. Y, receiving second money (SlO0) The
| twenty seven stories from which these two
were selected were passed upon finally by L.
C.. Stedman, the banker-poet of New York.
ANOTHER incident of Moltke and Bismarck
| comes TO hand. at Konggratz, while the
| result was yet in doubt, the statesman ap
| preached the warrior to ask him his opinion
Of the battle. He found him sitting silently
on his black horse, and hesitatedstO disturb
his meditations. Presently, without a word,
be offered him his cigar-case. There were
two cigars in it, one good, the other rather
| poor. The illustrious Marshal, still silent,
took il, inspected the contents chose the
better cigar, returned the poor one with the
case and renamed as silent before, while
the statesman turned away with his question
unasked and unanswered.
THERE is a movement on foot for re-
union of the survivors of Picketts famous
charge at Gettysburg next July. Pickett,
who was Msjor-General commanding the
division, and Brigadier-Generals GaTnett and
Armistead commanding two of the brigades
that charged, persisted on the field; but
Brigadier-General James l.. Kemper, who
was severely wounded and captured at the
elimination of the attack, still survives, with
an eucysted bullet in him as a memento of
the charge. He has since been Governor of
Virginia, and General Eppa Hunton, another
survivor, has been in Congress. Special in
vitations have been sent to Generals Kemper
and Hunton.
Room for Gratitude.